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Because if you think too much about it, he said, | nobody would ever go. richard was flown home after being fatally wounded in an explosion while on a vehicle patrol in helmand province in 2009. they told me there was no hope. they said, just be with him as long as you can be. - so i went to his bedside. the padre said to me, - you have got to let him go. he said, you have to. tell him it is ok to go. so thats what happened to him. the hardest thing i have ever done in my life. . i am incredibly...

They said just be with him as long as you can be. - so i went to his bedside. the padre said to me - you have got to let him go. he said you have to tell him it is ok to go. - so thats what happened to him. the hardest thing i have ever done in my life. . i am incredibly sad. quite bitter. and incredibly angry about it, i because everything that the lads and girls out there have worked - so hard for has just crumbled away. jack cummings served two tours of afghanistan. in 2010, he lost his legs ...

Daughter, but shes -- >> shes hurt, yes. >> -- pretty seriously hurt. >> mm-hmm. >> for the chapas, the wait was excruciating. and then their daughter returned with the news they had been praying for. >> she comes back down, she tells me, "mom, its grace. " family and friends took turns at kristenes bedside, wondering if she would ever regain consciousness. >> i was talking to her, telling her that i was there, you know, that we loved her, you know. >> howd she look? >> it was bad. it was so bad...

By my childs bedside? >> yes, that is the case in some cases. you know, sometimes that transport has to be air transport and there is no room for that parent in air transport. we had cases we sent a 1-year-old, a 1-and-a-half-year-old alone with strangers, their parents had to drive hours to meet their kid where theyre going. >> how are you handling all this just as a person in the middle of all this? this has to be just hard emotionally, spiritually, and especially since as youve described, thi...

Tans fering patients out to in some cases ought states, in some cases six, seven hours away from the initial hospital that they present to so were making due with what we have. but unfortunately, you know, our governor here in texas has banned macmandates at a local level. thats something we need. we know kind of -- >> im sorry, can i stop you there one second. you said you are transferring some kids to other states. so if im a parent, i show up with my kid who is sick with covid, i might have t...

Including one i understand this week of a 53-year-old unvaccinated man. they called you a trader after that. but tell me about your experience inside the hospital. >> so, this is a new phase of the pandemic. it is something totally new. what were seeing now is truly is, as they say, a pandemic of the unvaccinated. and what were seeing is patients that are skewing younger, 30s, 40s, 50s. people in some cases like i said have no pre-existing medical conditions and no business being as sick as they...

Like this, in this age group, its very difficult. its very difficult. and the reactions we get are, you know, some people are just dumbstruck, some are angry. it just varies. and then we have to go and take care of these patients at the bedside. a doctor was putting a chest tube in one patient, and then going to the next tube and putting a chest tube in the next patient. then youre getting more calls from the e.r. about more people rolling in. its just constant. i wish our governor would step up...

Like this, in this age group, its very difficult. its very difficult. and the reactions we get are, you know, some people are just dumbstruck, some are angry. it just varies. and then we have to go and take care of these patients at the bedside. a doctor was putting a chest tube in one patient, and then going to the next tube and putting a chest tube in the next patient. then youre getting more calls from the e.r. about more people rolling in. its just constant. i wish our governor would step up...

End-of-life with people like this, in this age group, its very difficult. its very difficult. the reactions we get -- you know, some people are dumbstruck, some people are angry, it is verys. and then of course we have to take care of these patients at the bedside, this doctor was putting a chest tube in one patient and then just gonna go put another one and another patient. so you basically are going from one room to another, and at the same time youre getting calls from the er about more peopl...

Politics for a lot of that. i talked to one nurse in the icu here who after years of being an icu nurse is moving to a different department. she told me that she could just not take it anymore, that its become too much for her to bear. she said at this point people arent doing what they need to do to protect us, so she has to protect herself. for her, that means leaving the icu. she was on one of her last days, one of her final shifts on the covid icu floor. on that floor we also spoke to a resp...